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Originally Posted by JeffS  One thing I haven't seen addressed so far on this thread is Kevin's initial remark about number of comments.
I have a few blogs and have been involved in others, and let me tell you, especially if you aren't a "leader" in your niche, comments take a long, long time to come. Either people will go comment on you on their own blog, or they just won't bother. It isn't a sign of disinterest, it's just a sign of not-rabid interest.
Until a reader comments for the first time, it takes a real urge to get them to comment. Once they've popped their commenting cherry, so to speak, they'll keep coming back -- on my baseball blog ( http://www.BrewCrewBall.com), I have a few people who comment all the time, and tons of regular readers who never have. Strangely enough, my traffic numbers are just barely positively correlated to comment totals. |
I can confirm this as well. On one of my blogs I'll get between 100-200 visits a day when I post and if I'm lucky I'll get 1 comment. Now my investing blog gets fewer hits but more comments (ok, maybe only 2, but they are more frequent).